Professional Education Services

The
Chadwick Center offers accredited Professional Education to those
involved in fields of prevention, investigation, diagnosis, treatment,
and prosecution of child abuse and family violence. Since its
beginning in 1976, the Chadwick Center has trained more than 100,000
professionals from all fifty states and over forty countries.

Major
educational activities include the annual San Diego International
Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment; the Clinical Training
Program for visiting physicians, the weekly multidisciplinary Child
Protection Team Case Conference, and various local, county, and state
trainings funded through contracts.

Since
1986, our highly acclaimed conference has been held each January in San
Diego. This five-day conference presents evidence-based best
practices to multidisciplinary professionals working in the child and
family maltreatment field. Our distinguished international faculty
present best-practice skill-building workshops, inspiring plenaries, and
thought-provoking forums on the following topic areas:

Medical Evaluation

Forensic Evidentiary Interviewing

Trauma Treatment Concepts and Intervention

Mental Health

Prosecution and Investigation

Domestic Violence

Child Welfare

Child Abuse and Injury Prevention

Leadership and Public Policy

Research

International Global Issues

Cultural Specific Issues

Pre-conference Institutes

Clinical Training Program (CTP)

The
Chadwick Center conducts customized training to address the prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment of child and family maltreatment onsite in San
Diego or offsite around the world. CTP training, usually one to
five days, offers topics including:

Medical Evaluation of child abuse

Conducting Forensic Evidentiary Interviews

Trauma Therapy including (but not limited to):

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)

Program and Protocol Development

Child and Family Advocacy

Home Visiting to address Prevention and Early Intervention

Child Protection Team (CPT) Case Conference

Since 1976, a weekly two-hour case conference
consisting of a multidisciplinary collaborative effort by those in law
enforcement, child protection, mental and medical health, and the
justice system, is held at the Chadwick Center. Recent and
on-going child abuse cases are reviewed and discussed by members of CPT
in a confidential environment.

This program is funded by the County of San Diego. The Chadwick
Center provides a five-day, thirty-hour training program four times a
year. This training program is specifically for qualified foster
parent caregivers, which is mandated by the Welfare and Institution
Codes and California Department of Social Services.